Ellen Kuhl named director of Stanford Bio-X
March 29, 2024 - Stanford News
Kuhl aims to continue Bio-X’s legacy of facilitating multidisciplinary fundamental research and innovation.
Stanford Bio-X affiliated faculty members and fellows are generating scientific advances that expand our understanding of how the body works and will ultimately improve human health. These news stories and press releases describe some of those breakthroughs.
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Real-time scans of self-healing nanoparticles show their energy storage potential
January 16, 2017 - Stanford News
Researchers under Bio-X affiliate Jennifer Dionne recorded reactions at near-atomic-scale resolution, another step toward building a better battery. -
Researchers identify source of opioids’ side effects
January 16, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Researchers under Bio-X affiliates Gregory Scherrer, David Clark, and Ben Barres, including Bio-X Fellow Jasmine Dickinson, have identified the receptors to which opioids bind to produce tolerance to the drugs and increased sensitivity to pain. -
Caffeine may counter age-related inflammation
January 16, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A chronic inflammatory process that occurs in some, but not all, older people may trigger cardiovascular problems, a study from Bio-X affiliates Mark Davis, Francois Haddad, Garry Nolan, and Calvin Kuo and Bio-X Fellow Gabriela Fragiadakis shows. -
Wearable sensors can tell when you are getting sick
January 12, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
New research from Bio-X affiliates Michael Snyder and Tracey McLaughlin shows that fitness monitors and other wearable biosensors can tell when an individual’s heart rate, skin temperature and other measures are abnormal, suggesting possible illness. -
Resetting leukemia cells
January 12, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliate Ravindra Majeti and then postdoctoral fellow Mark Chao became the first to reset a human leukemia cell to a nearly embryonic state as an induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell. -
Diabetes impairs activity of bone stem cells in mice, inhibits fracture repair
January 11, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Bio-X affiliates Michael Longaker, Geoffrey Gurtner, Philip Beachy, Fan Yang, Stuart Goodman, and Irving Weissman found that activating bone stem cells helps repair fractures in diabetic mice. Applying a protein to the fracture site enhanced healing. -
Researchers announce master plan for better science
January 10, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Nature Publishing Group has launched a new journal and its inaugural issue includes a “manifesto for reproducible science” co-authored by Bio-X affiliate John Ioannidis. -
Inspired by a whirligig toy, Stanford bioengineers develop a 20-cent, hand-powered blood centrifuge
January 10, 2017 - Stanford News
Bioengineers under Bio-X affiliate Manu Prakash have developed an ultra-low-cost, human-powered centrifuge that separates blood plasma from red cells in 1.5 minutes. -
Apply for the 2017 Stanford Bio-X, Stanford Neurosciences Institute (SNI), and Stanford ChEM-H Fellowships!
January 9, 2017
The Stanford Bio-X Leadership Council is pleased to announce the 14th annual competition for Stanford Bio-X Graduate Student Fellowships. -
Stanford study shows that tissue in the brain, rather than being lost, grows across childhood and may underlie better face recognition
January 5, 2017 - Stanford News
A study from Bio-X affiliate Kalanit Grill-Spector finds that the amount of brain tissue does not only decrease through our lives: in some cases the brain can also add tissue. -
Stanford updates app for sharing data on heart health
January 5, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A new version of the free MyHeart Counts app is available. It now features graphical feedback, interventions and coaching. Bio-x affiliate Euan Ashely is the principal investigator for the MyHeart Counts study. -
In Stanford study, worms dine on nanoparticles to help test biological force sensor technology
January 1, 2017 - Stanford News
Supported by a Bio-X Seed Grant, Bio-X affiliated faculty Jennifer Dionne and Miriam Goodman have teamed up to unravel the biological forces at play within our bodies. The first phase: feeding nanoparticles to worms. -
Genetics: A look back at the first 100 years
December 29, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Members of Bio-X affiliates Jonathan Pritchard's and Marcus Feldman's labs have taken time to explore the history of genetics research, mining all the papers published in GENETICS since its inception to find drivers of scientific innovation. -
Stem cells give scientists a new window into the biology of a rare disease
December 22, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
New research from Bio-X affiliates Marlene Rabinovitch, Michael Snyder, and Joseph Wu provides a great example of how stem-cell techniques can help researchers overcome an otherwise-insurmountable research challenge. -
Some glioblastoma patients benefit from ‘ineffective’ treatment
December 22, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A study from Bio-X affiliates Daniel Rubin, Olivier Gevaert, Griffith Harsh, and Steven Chang shows that glioblastoma patients with a high degree of vascularization of their tumors were found to have benefited from a treatment previously deemed ineffective. -
Gene activity predicts progression of autoimmune disease
December 22, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Researchers under Bio-X affiliates Purvesh Khatri, David Fiorentino, and PJ Utz have found a way to tell whether patients with systemic sclerosis were improving during drug treatment a year before a standard clinical test could. -
Starfish larvae create complex water whorls to eat and run
December 19, 2016 - Stanford News
Bio-X affiliate Manu Prakash finds that tiny starfish larvae employ a complex and previously unknown survival mechanism involving whorls of water that either bring food to them or speed them away to better feeding grounds. -
Research locates absence epilepsy seizure ‘choke point’ in brain
December 15, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Stanford researchers under Bio-X affiliates John Huguenard and Karl Deisseroth used a rodent model to discover that shifting the firing pattern of a particular set of brain cells is all it takes to initiate, or to terminate, an absence seizure. -
Research transparency depends on sharing computational tools
December 15, 2016 - Stanford Medicine Scope
A team of scientists including Bio-X affiliate John Ioannidis has proposed a set of principles to improve the transparency and reproducibility of computational methods used in all areas of research. -
No more burning batteries? Stanford scientists turn to AI to create safer lithium-ion batteries
December 15, 2016 - Stanford News
Researchers including Bio-X affiliate Yi Cui have identified 21 solid materials that could replace flammable liquid electrolytes in lithium-ion batteries. -
Smartphones could be game-changing tool for cardiovascular research
December 14, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Bio-X affiliate Euan Ashley says that data from MyHeart Counts, a heart-health study in which participants transmit information through an app, shows smartphones' potential to transform the measurement of physical activity and fitness for research. -
DNA in wastewater could provide clues to help community health
December 12, 2016 - Stanford News
Supported by a Stanford Bio-X IIP Seed Grant, Bio-X affiliated faculty members Craig Criddle, Christopher Francis, Stephen Luby, Susan Holmes, and Justin Sonnenburg are developing methods for monitoring of DNA in wastewater, which could enable early detection of disease. -
Conjoined twins successfully separated at Packard Children’s Hospital
December 9, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Two-year-old twin sisters Erika and Eva Sandoval are recovering in the pediatric intensive care unit following their Dec. 6 separation surgery, which Bio-X affiliates H. Peter Lorenz and Louis Halamek both contributed to. -
Study reveals drug interactions that may reduce mortality in breast cancer patients
December 9, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Bio-X affiliates Nigam Shah and Trevor Hastie found that certain drug combinations were associated with lower mortality rates among breast cancer patients. -
Study establishes extent of the brain excited by specific dose of electricity
December 8, 2016 - Stanford Medicine News Center
Until the study from Bio-X affiliate Josef Parvizi no quantitative relationship between the level of electricity applied to the brain and the extent of neural activity generated has been plotted in humans. -
Who needs a body? Not these larvae, which are basically swimming heads
December 8, 2016 - Stanford News
Most animals we study have adult-like bodies early in their development. But researchers including Bio-X affiliate Christopher Lowe have found that certain marine worms live for months as little more than a head. -
School kids can do safe, simple biological experiments over the internet
December 7, 2016 - Stanford News
Initially supported by a Bio-X IIP Seed Grant, Bio-X affiliates Ingmar Riedel-Kruse and Paulo Blikstein, with Bio-X Fellow Zahid Hossain, invented the remote-controlled Biology Cloud Lab, which enables creating experiments with single-celled organisms. -
Taking back control of an autonomous car affects human steering behavior, Stanford research shows
December 6, 2016 - Stanford News
Research from Bio-X affiliate Allison Okamura indicates that when human drivers retake control of an autonomous car, the transition could be problematic. -
Birds flying through laser light reveal faults in flight research
December 7, 2016 - Stanford News
Parrotlets flying through a field of lasers and microparticles helped test three popular models that predict the lift generated by flying animals. The work, under Bio-X affiliate David Lentink, could help develop better flying robots. -
Stanford engineers find that a new memory technology may be more energy efficient than previously thought
December 5, 2016 - Stanford News
Researchers under Bio-X affiliate H.-S. Philip Wong found an energy-saving surprise that could translate into longer battery life for next-generation mobile devices.